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Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB

From	Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.boot
Subject	Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB
Date	2026-08-05 15:50 +0200
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Hi,

Am 5. August 2026 12:06:25 MESZ schrieb Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucharski.name>:
>Source: debian-installer
>Version: 20250803+deb13u6
>Severity: wishlist
>
>Dear Maintainer,
>
>I'm using multiple Debian machines over the years and I am mainly
>installing those Debian systems via debian-.*-amd64-netinst.iso image
>with plain text Debian Installer and I'm using guided partitioning.
[...]
># df -hl /boot/ /boot/efi/
>Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>/dev/nvme0n1p2  456M  270M  162M  63% /boot
>/dev/nvme0n1p1  511M   26M  486M   6% /boot/efi
>
>Current size seems approx 500MB, but I would like to ask for bump
>to 1GB in the upcoming Debian Forky.

There were some changes already, to address these issues.
Could you try with a daily build from
<https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/amd64/iso-cd/>

With guided partitioning, it depends on the size of the harddrive, of course, how much space is dedicated to /boot, BTW.


Holger



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Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Mikolaj Kucharski <mikolaj@kucharski.name> - 2026-08-05 12:40 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2026-08-05 13:20 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-08-05 13:30 +0200
  Bug#1143639: debian-installer: Consider bumping default size for /boot partition to 1GB Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> - 2026-08-05 15:50 +0200

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